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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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I think no virtue goes with size.
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The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.
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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.
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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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